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• Midlothian Fire Marshal Suspended 1 Week w/o Pay

  —The Ellis County Observer

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  Midlothian Fire Marshal Tom Montgomery, who also serves as the assistant fire chief, was suspended for one week without pay for e-mailing — via a city computer and a city e-mail address — a photo of a fully naked woman to city officials. In the private corporate sector, this would have [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:59am EST
  by JoeyGDauben

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• Caracas : Bolivar is Inspiration for New Peoples' Movement in Latin America

  —The Rag Blog

  The founding congress of the Movimiento Continental Bolivariano (MCB) in Caracas, Dec. 7, 2009. Photo from kaosenlared.netMovimiento Continental Bolivariano:'Take the open road of hope'By Marion Delgado / The Rag Blog / December 14, 2009CARTAGENA DE INDIES, Colombia -- Students, workers, peasants, indigenous movements and leftist groups from 30 countries gathered [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:45am EST
  

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• Tragicomedy in Mexico City : Clown Prince Juanito Calls it Quits

  —The Rag Blog

  Two thumbs up from Rafael Acosta, aka Juanito. Top, at Mexico City's Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Photo by Rene Soto / Milenio Diario. Below, at his office last month before his resignation. Photo from The Independent / AP.Tragicomedy in Ixtapalapa:Mexico's political clown prince resigns'Juanito is us all,' considers [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:03am EST
  

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• RIP Paul Samuelson

  —konagod

  Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economist of the 20th century, died Sunday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 94.
  
  Photo credit: Robert Spencer for The New York Times
  
  I've always been in awe of' [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 7:18am EST
  

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• A "non-transparent" holiday media slight?

  —blogHOUSTON

  KRIV-26'S ISIAH CAREY AND KPRC-2'S MARY BENTON both blog about attending Mayor White's big local holiday media soiree. We asked our friends at Texas Watchdog why they hadn't posted similarly exciting celebrity photos, but they informed us they wer...' [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 10:28pm EST
  

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• Fixing the Economy? Like Filling a Leaky Bucket

  —The Rag Blog

  "Old tin bucket." Photo by {JO} / Flickr.Bucket's got a hole in it:Can we revive the U.S. economy?By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / December 13, 2009Is trying to fix the U.S. economy like trying to fill a leaky bucket? So it seems. The money the U.S. government is [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 11:23am EST
  

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• PTSD and the Military : Soldiers Go AWOL to Get Help

  —The Rag Blog

  Photo illustration by Jennifer Clampet / USAG Wiesbaden Public Affairs.Military health care inadequate:GI's go AWOL for PTSD treatmentBy Dahr Jamail / December 13, 2009MARFA, Texas -- With a military health care system over-stretched by two ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, more soldiers are deciding to go absent without leave [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 8:36am EST
  

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• Rocking New Hampshire : James Montgomery and J. Geils

  —The Rag Blog

  James Montgomery, coiling and kicking. Photo from The Sun Chronicle.Rocking New Hampshire blues:James Montgomery and J. Geils at The MiddleHe rushes forward on stage like a ranting king exhorting the other players, filling in rhythm details with showy flashes of the harmonica.By Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 3:29pm EST
  

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• UNT UNT Student Project: Natural Gas Drilling in North Texas

  —Bluedaze.

  UNT Student Sarah Mueller is a journalism major who wrote about DISH, TX and Megan Collins on a multimedia website she created as her class project. Click the CrossTex sign for audio and a slideshow with some excellent photography.I am thrilled to see something from UNT on this issue and [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 8:15am EST
  

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• CIA Efforts to Control World Distribution of ‘Illicit’ Drugs

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  by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
  
  DEA agents were photographed among first responders on 911. That’s curious. What interest have drug enforcement agents in this alleged act of ‘terrorism’?

  Connect some dots: upon the 911 pretext, the US invaded Afghanistan whose ‘cash crop’ [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:55pm EST
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• Jonah Raskin on Obama Speech : Woefully Ignorant

  —The Rag Blog

  Barack Obama in Oslo. Photo from CBS.An open letter to President Obama:Your speech was a betrayal of American idealsBy Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / December 11, 2009Dear President Obama:I read your Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech and found it woefully ignorant. Or perhaps it was deliberately meant to [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 3:57pm EST
  

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• Nancy Pelosi as Stalin: One California Korean-American says it fits

  —Libertarian Republican

  

  Asian Americans know best about the evils of Communism
  
  An Asian American local councilman is getting both praise and severe criticism for his one-man protest recently. The Democrats in Orange County held a dinner, and controversial Councilman Steven Choi of Irvine showed up with a photo-shopped [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:22am EST
  

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• Michael Williams has DeMint nod for U.S. Senate

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  Texas Railroad Commission member Michael Williams is "probably one of the brightest stars in the country" among conservatives and deserves to be Texas' next U.S. senator, South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint (right/AP photo) said this morning in a conference call.

  "Michael Williams is the Democrat Party's" [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:59am EST
  

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• Amy Goodman : Take Me to Your Climate Leader

  —The Rag Blog

  Photo from NASA.In a freshly released report on Tuesday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) stated that 2000-2009 was the warmest decade ever on record. While the WMO has warned the world about this dire situation before, this new analysis further confirms the urgency and need for us to take action. [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:59pm EST
  

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• Air Froce confirms use of stealth UAV in Afghanistan

  —PrairiePundit

  AFP:
  
  The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy.

  The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 9:37am EST
  

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• Daybreaker: What's it's like at the Silsbee Pizza Hut

  —The Bayou

  As usual, our mind slipped into the gutter on this one. Who knew Pizza Hut had such a bawdy sense of humor.Is the guy in that photo winking? And why not. You just know they had a good time writing the box cover copy for this ad.From a Bayou operative [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:06am EST
  

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• Locke Rocking the Illegal Vote

  —musings

  Bay Area Houston has a new post up on Locke's illegally placed signs, plus this photo:
  
  
  
  He's also got this which is required by law to be printed on every political sign:
  
  "NOTICE: IT IS A VIOLATION OF STATE LAW (CHAPTERS 392" [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 6:30am EST
  

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• John Ross : Days of Dementia in Obamalandia

  —The Rag Blog

  The Zhu Zhu virtual hamster: Dementia in Obamalandia. Photo by Rex Larsen / The Grand Rapids Press.On the loose in Obamalandia:Days of Dementia ('Is the war over yet?')Yes, Baracko, the economy is booming again for Chinese-made mechanical hamsters but homelessness is the real growth industry.By John Ross / The Rag [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:45am EST
  

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• 2009 Weekly local football review

  —Houston's Clear Thinkers

  (AP Photo/Stephen Morton; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Texas Longhorns 13 Nebraska 12 Has any team ever gone through an undefeated season and been in position to win the national championship with a more unimpressive offensive... [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

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• Economy and Unemployment : Real Recovery a Long Shot

  —The Rag Blog

  Photo from OOlaah.comReal unemployment nears depression levels;Sustained recovery appears unlikelyBy Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / December 6, 2009It should come as no big surprise that our economy is in worse shape than the U.S. government would like to admit. Lets start out by looking at the current U.S. [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 12:38pm EST
  

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• John Holbrook Interviewed by World Radio Switzerland About Death Row Photographs

  —Texas Moratorium Network

  Last May, TMN helped John Holbrook bring his exhibit of photos of people on Texas death row to the Texas state capitol. Now, his exhibit is on tour. Here is an interview he did on a Swiss radio station.Texans may have a popular image of gun-loving death penalty [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:52am EST
  

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• Organic Farming : Cutting Carbon Emissions Big Time

  —The Rag Blog

  Photo from The Red Mullet.Going organic:Dump the mega-corps and save the world?By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2009A new report from The Soil Association [see article below] says a worldwide switch to organic farming would cut CO2 emissions by 11%.That's a huge return that ought to [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:14am EST
  

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• RIP Bobby Keane : The Rise and Fall of a Music Man

  —The Rag Blog

  Ritchie Valens, left, and Bob Keane, then president of Del-Fi Records, on TV show in Los Angeles, 1958. Photo from Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images.Musician and music biz progidy:The ill-starred life of Bobby KeaneBy Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2009Bobby Kuhn was born in [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 10:09am EST
  

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• Have A Holiday That Keeps You In Touch With How Things Were–And Still Are

  —TexasLiberal

  The photo above is of a Downtown Houston department store I was in today. I walked around Downtown today. I often visit Downtown. This holiday season—-Clip a coupon from a newspaper, walk around and see stuff, visit a department store, and give a few bucks to a charity of some kind. Have a [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:12pm EST
  by Neil Aquino

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• Perry to file for re-election Thursday, says Washington set on 'regulatory flights of fancy'

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  Gov. Rick Perry will officially file for reelection Thursday, he told a crowd of cheering supporters in Dallas Wednesday.

  "Tomorrow, I will stop by the Republican Party headquarters in Austin and sign my name on the dotted line for" [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:57pm EST
  

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• The War President : Barack Obama at West Point

  —The Rag Blog

  President Barack Obama announces his escalation of the War in Afghanistan at the US Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., on Tuesday night. Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP.The War President at West Point:Great speech, bad messageBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / December 2, 2009Last night, President Obama [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:35am EST
  

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• Remembering John Whitmire, reporter

  —THE BRAZOSPORT NEWS

  
  Above you will see a photo of reporters, photographers and one editor gathered in the newsroom of the late, lamented Houston Post newspaper to commemorate John Whitmire Day.
  John is the fellow with the hangdog expression seated on the stool, holding his ever-present cup [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:25pm EST
  

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• Encore post: Rosa Parks, December 1, 1955

  —Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

  Rosa Parks: “Why do you push us around?” Officer: “I don’t know but the law is the law and you’re under arrest.” From Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Quiet Strength (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1994), page 23. Photo: Mrs. Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama; photo from New York World-Telegram & [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:15pm EST
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• More Supreme Court News

  —The StandDown Texas Project

  Also yesterday, the Supreme Court rejected one California death case with an innocence claim.  It granted cert in a Michigan case involving double jeopardy, and requested additional briefing in an Alabama death case.

  Let's begin with an excerpt of Lyle Denniston's SCOTUS Blog post, "Court scuttles photo ruling; grants 3 [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:57am EST
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• Career Tips : Pollyanna's Postmodern Pointers

  —The Rag Blog

  Photo from madebytess / Flickr. Employment trends for a post-widget worldBy Pollyanna O'Possum / The Rag Blog / December 1, 2009AUSTIN, Texas -- Let’s face it, friends: the U.S. of A. is not going back to making widgets anytime soon.Not even the deepening economic crisis has had any effect in' [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:05am EST
  

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